Tung-Lung Lin was born in December 13, 1964 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. He earned his doctorate degree in music composition at the University of North Texas in August 2000.

His musical language portrays elements from eastern and western philosophy. His recent symphonic work, The Heidegger Collection, is related to the philosophy of the prominent German philosopher, Martin Heidegger. He frequently transforms his musical ideas into a mood (Heidegger: state-of-mind) and then lets the sounds speak for themselves. He thinks all media have their unique attributes. One can never express music through other media without losing its beauty. Music can only uncover its essence by itself in itself through sounds.

Improvisation is a primordial element in his musical composition. He believes that improvisation can reflect one’s own personality. It is inspirational to his creative thinking. He likes to do improvisations in unconventional ways to explore the possibilities of sounds. He considers the process of composition an improvisation of structural and spiritual thinking. He likes to touch the threshold between ideas in his musical expression. Sometimes, his music deals with very basic philosophical elements, such as the concept of Husserl’s “reduction.”

His compositions vary from solo works to symphonic works; from traditional acoustic music to electro-acoustic music; and from conceptual music to absolute music. Beside music, he also creates art works. He like to creates art works that break the art boundaries, such as sound art. His recent work, “Walk IV”(1999) is an installation of streaming video over the internet. His art works and music have been performed in Taiwan, Europe, and the U.S.